West Berkshire Parent Carer Forum

Welcome to West Berks Parent Carer Forum!

We are a friendly group of parent carers who have children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities aged from 0-25 years.

We want to improve our local services, and by coming together as a collective, we can and do make changes. We love the video below and think the video below explains it perfectly. We are always happy for more people to join us, there’s no charge to join, we are completely free, and we are a relaxed fun group. So if you would like to be part of friendly bunch of people who would like to see SEND changes in West Berkshire, we would love to have you

As a Forum we can support and train parent carers to enable them to have their voices and opinions count, and to be involved with shaping services alongside the professionals who provide health, education, adult and social services.

Our shared mission is to improve and enhance the experiences and opportunities of children and young people with additional needs, by enabling parents and carers to be heard, and to be at the heart of decisions about development and delivery of services in West Berkshire.

The forum represent the views of the collective community and not an individual voice, we are unable to advocate for individual families, but can signpost to specialist services.

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Our 2018 conference is aimed at providing Parents/Carers and Practitioners with a greater understanding of the impact of Child to Parent Violence and Aggression on the child/young person, the parents/carers, and provides examples of different strategies and approaches to help manage this.

Our keynote speakers are Yvonne Newbold, the author of The Special Parent’s Handbook, Monica McCaffrey, the founder and Chief Executive of SIBS (the only UK charity for siblings of disabled children and adults), and Mark Brown, the founder of Special Help 4 Special Needs.

The Early Bird prices have been kept at the same prices as our 2016 conference, so register before midnight on 2nd March to take advantage of these special prices.

Our 2018 conference is aimed at providing Parents/Carers and Practitioners with a greater understanding of the impact of Child to Parent Violence and Aggression on the child/young person, the parents/carers, and provides examples of different strategies and approaches to help manage this. Our keynot...

This guide has been produced in response to what people withlearning disabilities, their parents and siblings have been askingfor years: what is going to happen in the future, and how can weshape it?This guide offers ideas for how different people can help parents,and contribute to thinking and planning for the future. Parentsusually need support to think ahead.

The Government are looking for views on School Exclusions. Edward Timpson CBE is seeking views and evidence on school exclusion practice in England as part of a review of school exclusions.. If you or anyone you know has had experience of School Exclusions, please share the post. To take part, please click the link below ...